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" Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing? "

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" 'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. "

" Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "

" Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. "

" In the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world. "

" I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. "

" You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects. "

" I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here. "

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" All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look. "

" After every war someone has to tidy up. "

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" There's simply too much fuss about myself. "

" Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. "

" I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. "

" Somewhere out there the world must have an end. "

" Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! "

" Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. "

" I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world. "

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" All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. "

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" Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. "

" It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself. "

" Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind. "

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